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10 Dec 2016 2:16:03pm

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** What fascinated me was the way Bishop Jensen emphatically described Christians as sinners.Or saved sinners. This biblical interpretation of the Christian condition seems to me to be actually rather weak. All of the Apostolic letters in the New Testament are addressed to 'the Saints of...' **

The use of the word "Saints," by NT authors is NOT an ifnerence that they are somehow now "perfect." It is simply another way of saying "believers."